On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 08:36:03PM +0800, Hans Neukomm wrote: > after lots of trial and error and the help of THIS mail list,
FWIW this one is posted on the wrong list; this one's a Postfix issue. Your hint for that should have been to see that the logs demonstrating the problem were entirely from Postfix. > finally my dovecot-postfix combination seems to work > yet > the dovecot mail spool always is empty > all mail forwarded to my main mail server - but i have no mail > relay configured. > > why is the mail NOT in the dovecot inbox but forwarded to > another mail server ?? Because the kriyayoga host does not know it's supposed to be the final destination for kriyayoga.com. Anything not recognized as a locally-hosted destination will be routed as per DNS lookup. http://www.postfix.org/ADDRESS_CLASS_README.html http://www.postfix.org/VIRTUAL_README.html > and why does postconf -A show cyrus and NOT dovecot ?? Irrelevant to your issue, this is normal. Dovecot does not have a client SASL implementation. > below some relevant config data. > > my goal is to have a clean simple dovecot+postfix mail system > with nothing else (cyrus or so) involved when ever possible. > > ---------- DNS MX stuff > > dig mx kriyayoga.com > ;; ANSWER SECTION: > kriyayoga.com. 3600 IN MX 10 smtp.kriyayoga.com. > kriyayoga.com. 3600 IN MX 0 mail.kriyayoga.com. The dual MX is usually not a good idea. To do it right is far from simple. Your lower priority MX host will be a spam magnet. > the new dovecot setup is tested on smtp.kriyayoga.com and when > successfully working shall be used on both mail MX servers. Two mailstores? Again, this is not simple to set up. > ---------- > > postfix stuff relevant to dovecot > > > postconf -A > cyrus > > > postconf -a > cyrus > dovecot > > my postconf -n shows nothing about cyrus in the config > NOR > anything about mail-relay to my main MX > > relayhost = > mailbox_transport = > mailbox_command = Those all being default settings, they do not belong in main.cf. > smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot > virtual_transport = dovecot > > ---------- below the mail log for sending mail to my dovecot box > > Jul 3 20:31:08 kriyayoga postfix/smtpd[27801]: connect from > unknown[124.108.51.96] > Jul 3 20:31:08 kriyayoga dovecot: auth(default): new auth connection: > pid=27801 > Jul 3 20:31:09 kriyayoga dovecot: auth(default): client in: > AUTH#0111#011PLAIN#011service=smtp#011nologin#011lip=78.46.101.111#011rip=124.108.51.96#011resp=aGFucwBoYW5zAEk4Q3Nhd084MUR4Y1JlTTh1QmgwTA== > Jul 3 20:31:09 kriyayoga dovecot: auth(default): > passwd-file(hans,124.108.51.96): lookup: user=hans > file=/etc/dovecot/passwd > Jul 3 20:31:09 kriyayoga dovecot: auth(default): client out: > OK#0111#011user=hans Okay, those are Dovecot logs, but not entirely relevant to the problem. The user hans authenticated successfully and is being permitted to relay to an external domain, kriyayoga.com. > Jul 3 20:31:09 kriyayoga postfix/smtpd[27801]: BC90129D9F: > client=unknown[124.108.51.96], sasl_method=PLAIN, sasl_username=hans > Jul 3 20:31:10 kriyayoga postfix/cleanup[27807]: BC90129D9F: > message-id=<201007032031.07830.h...@kriyayoga.com> > Jul 3 20:31:10 kriyayoga postfix/qmgr[14627]: BC90129D9F: > from=<h...@kriyayoga.com>, size=1287, nrcpt=2 (queue active) > Jul 3 20:31:10 kriyayoga postfix/smtp[27808]: BC90129D9F: > to=<h...@kriyayoga.com>, relay=mail.kriyayoga.com[88.198.14.45]:25, > delay=0.95, delays=0.5/0.01/0.17/0.26, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 Ok: > queued as 97FCE138024) > Jul 3 20:31:10 kriyayoga postfix/smtp[27808]: BC90129D9F: > to=<h...@kriyayoga.com>, relay=mail.kriyayoga.com[88.198.14.45]:25, > delay=0.95, delays=0.5/0.01/0.17/0.26, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 Ok: > queued as 97FCE138024) According to the MX records you posted, mail.kriyayoga.com. is the highest priority ("0") MX host for kriyayoga.com. So the rest of the non-spamming world is going to send all kriyayoga.com. mail there as well. > Jul 3 20:31:10 kriyayoga postfix/qmgr[14627]: BC90129D9F: removed > > > at this point the mail is gone already - NO mail in my dovecot > inbox - NO error - just automatically relayed to my main MX If you need to followup on this to the Postfix list, see: http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail -- Offlist mail to this address is discarded unless "/dev/rob0" or "not-spam" is in Subject: header